Where People and Computing Connect
Informatics shapes the way we use technology and computing to improve how we work, live, and play—expanding the potential of business, art, health care, law, environmental sustainability, smart cities, and everything you can imagine.
HCI research and practice opens doors, practically and creatively, for alumna
Jennifer Palilonis (above left) was a self-described non-traditional Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction program at the IU School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) at IUPUI in 2010. Now the director of the Center for Emerging Media Design & Development at Ball State University, she says, “I always tell people, I didn’t get a Ph.D. because I needed the degree, I got the Ph.D. because I was really interested in learning the subject matter….”
